Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

n. A renewed of a grant.

transitive v. To grant back; to grant again or anew.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To grant again.

n. The act of granting again; a new or fresh grant.

Etymologies

From re- +‎ grant. (Wiktionary)

Examples

He complains to the Queen about one of the more aggressive governors and helps get him sacked; he helps institute a revised version of "surrender and regrant" in Connacht in 1585; and he warns London against too much innovation in policy.

(The idea was that they would surrender their ancient claims to their land to the King, and he would then regrant them their territory and give them peerages; there were also usually provisions about adopting English dress and customs.)

Instead, he argues that if the Henry VIII/Anthony St Leger policy of "surrender and regrant" had been consistently applied, Ireland could have been integrated into the Tudor realms without much more difficulty than Wales or the far north of England, with the Gaelic chieftains converted to loyal-ish subjects rather than fractious objects of military adventure.

The conquest by William of Normandy through the wholesale confiscation and regrant of lands, and through his military arrangements, brought about an almost sudden development and spread of feudalism in England, and it was rapidly systematized and completed in the reigns of his two sons.